DUDE (DUplicates DEtector)
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VisitDUDE (DUplicates DEtector) vs jdupes
What both publish
| Fact | DUDE (DUplicates DEtector) | jdupes |
|---|---|---|
| File actions | Users can move marked files to Trash or Recycle Bin, delete them, create hard or soft links, or create Windows .lnk shortcuts. | Available actions include prompting to delete duplicates, deleting without prompting, linking duplicates, summarizing results, and copy-on-write deduplication. |
| Filtering | The app supports regular-expression and glob-expression syntax. | Options can exclude hidden files, restrict filesystem boundaries, filter by size, and apply exclusion specifications. |
| License | The project is licensed under the MIT license. | The software is released under the MIT License. |
| Notable limit | Hard links are currently ignored during scanning and cannot be processed as duplicates. | The README warns that quick matching skips byte-by-byte verification and may cause non-duplicates to be treated as duplicates. |
| Purpose | DUDE is a cross-platform GUI utility for finding duplicate files so users can delete or link them to save space. | jdupes identifies duplicate files and can delete them, create hard links or symlinks, and perform block-level deduplication. |
DUDE (DUplicates DEtector) plans
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Pick DUDE (DUplicates DEtector) if…
DUDE suits Linux and Windows users who want to locate duplicate files across selected folders and review matches before acting. It may also suit people who want image-similarity matching or file-manager and command-line options.
Pick jdupes if…
jdupes suits users who want a command-line tool to find exact duplicate files across Linux, macOS, or Windows. It is not designed to identify similar-looking or similar-sounding files.